May 17, 2011 |
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Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!
Start using Windows 7 right away–the QuickSteps way. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions make it easy to get up to speed on all the features of this versatile operating system. Follow along and quickly learn how to customize your desktop, manage files, connect to the internet, use email, add hardware and software, print documents, and secure your system. You’ll also get tips for using Windows 7 to work with your photos, play music, and make movies. Written by a senior for seniors, this practical, fast-paced guide helps you get the most out of Windows 7.
Use these handy guideposts:
- Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks
- Personal insights from other seniors
- Need-to-know facts in concise narrative
- Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
- Bonus information related to the topic being covered
- Errors and pitfalls to avoid
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May 16, 2011 |
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Book Description
Although web standards-based websites can scale effectively—and basic CSS will give you basic results—there are considerations and obstacles that high traffic websites must face to keep your development and hosting costs to a minimum. There are many tips and tricks, as well as down-to-earth best practice information, to make sure that everything runs quickly and efficiently with the minimum amount of fuss or developer intervention. Targeted at “high traffic” websites—those receiving over 10,000 unique visitors a day—CSS for High Traffic Websites gives you inside information from the professionals on how to get the most out of your web development team.
The book covers the development processes required to smoothly set up an easy-to-maintain CSS framework across a large-volume website and to keep the code reusable and modular. It also looks at the business challenges of keeping branding consistent across a major website and sustaining performance at a premium level through traffic spikes and across all browsers. Defensive coding is considered for sites with third-party code or advertising requirements. It also covers keeping CSS accessible for all viewers, and examines some advanced dynamic CSS techniques.
What you’ll learn
May 16, 2011 |
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Pro Puppet is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet. The book is a comprehensive follow-up to the previous title Pulling Strings with Puppet. Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. You’ll learn how to create Puppet recipes, extend Puppet, and use Facter to gather configuration data from your servers.
Puppet is a must-have tool for system administrators, and Pro Puppet will teach you how to maximize its capabilities and customize it for your environment.
- Install and configure Puppet to immediately start automating tasks and create reporting solutions
- Learn insider tricks and techniques to better manage your infrastructure
- Become a Puppet expert!
What you’ll learn
- See how to install Puppet on a variety of platforms
- Learn how to manage infrastructure with Puppet
- Discover how to scale Puppet to suit small, medium, and large organizations
- Learn how to integrate Puppet with other tools such as Cucumber and Nagios Download Now »
May 16, 2011 |
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Book Description
The Sync Framework is Microsoft’s latest innovation to deal with the dilemma of occasionally connected systems. It is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access for applications, services, and devices. In particular, it features technologies and tools that enable device roaming, sharing, and the ability to take networked data offline before synchronizing it back to the networked application at a later time.
Pro Sync Framework concludes with a working example that shows how the techniques you’ve learned can be used to create a versatile application, adaptable to a wide variety of connectivity and synchronization challenges.
What you’ll learn
- Explore the subject through text written in a tight, code–centric style that focuses on the issues you need to know.
- Learn through a hands–on approach that demonstrates the techniques practically rather than talking about them theoretically.
- See how it works through a step–by–step guide to mastering the framework.
- Understand the coding best–practices that are developing for the Sync Framework.
- Explore a fully worked sample application that shows all the concepts in action. Download Now »
May 16, 2011 |
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SQL Server 2008 Transact–SQL Recipes: A Problem–Solution Approach is an example–based guide to the Transact–SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server 2008. Learn to create databases, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Author Joseph Sack takes common Transact–SQL tasks and breaks them down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on.
- Focused on solutions: Look up what you need to do. Learn how to do it. Do it.
- Current: Newly updated for SQL Server 2008.
- Comprehensive: Covers 30 different Transact–SQL problem domains.
What you’ll learn
- Create databases, tables, and indexes.
- Query and manipulate data.
- Store and manage XML inside the database.
- Move business logic into the database.
- Encrypt data and capture changes for compliance purposes.
- Implement Full–Text Search. Download Now »
May 16, 2011 |
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Book Description
MongoDB, a cross-platform NoSQL database, is the fastest-growing new database in the world. MongoDB provides a rich document orientated structure with dynamic queries that you’ll recognize from RDMBS offerings such as MySQL. In other words, this is a book about a NoSQL database that does not require the SQL crowd to re-learn how the database world works!
MongoDB has reached 1.0 and already boasts 50,000+ users. The community is strong and vibrant and MongoDB is improving at a fast rate. With scalable and fast databases becoming critical for today’s applications, this book shows you how to install, administer and program MongoDB *without* pretending SQL never existed.
What you’ll learn
- Set up MongoDB on all major platforms, including Linux and Cloud platforms
- Model data within a document-oriented database
- Work with your data using non-SQL commands
- Write applications using MongoDB’s PHP API
- Optimize MongoDB
- Master MongoDB administration, including replication Download Now »
